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this little guy was born into one of the worst environment possible. into a country where you are going to starve to death, definitely get cholera and a bunch of other diseases. if not you might get maimed. not having the benefits i have -- as bad as my childhood was, i got beaten with a belt. i went to bed hungry if you times because i was born to teenage mom. my life was pretty bad. most people here never had it really bad. this guy has it bad. now he is dying because his right foot is blown off and his left foot is partially blown off. he is lying there and has gangrene and is dying a slow miserable death. being americans what do we want to do? help the kid. do i really want to help the kid? i am running a safe house. i am in the middle of bad guy territory. everybody around me is hostile. i am risking the lives of my agents and my team if i help this young man because that is not my job. my job is to gather intelligence, get rid of the bad guys and do what needs to be done to take care of business. being raised in a cell and being a christian i had
this little guy was born into one of the worst environment possible. into a country where you are going to starve to death, definitely get cholera and a bunch of other diseases. if not you might get maimed. not having the benefits i have -- as bad as my childhood was, i got beaten with a belt. i went to bed hungry if you times because i was born to teenage mom. my life was pretty bad. most people here never had it really bad. this guy has it bad. now he is dying because his right foot is blown...
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but is it -- is there a mechanism by which individual citizens can influence the funding environment other than giving money? >> that's how. >> has just giving money. >> that's it. >> money is one kind of speech. i was asked a similar question at a gathering recently and i said look, barack obama has shown there's a second model for politicians. you can build a base of small donors and as brad points out it can be a robust, even unlimited spending. >> any other thoughts on how much impact citizens have over the state of play? >> we are and what appear the five of us because we are in the more influential group of citizens. we have influence without having to give money. that's one of the things i point out, it went quick anecdote. when i was at the fec, used to coming to washington to spend a week or two in the summer, and the attacks of the department of agriculture. and i remember one year they were creating a debate topic and they would have these debates on campaign finance. i looked at the resolution being introduced to regulate campaign finance. the students thought that the re
but is it -- is there a mechanism by which individual citizens can influence the funding environment other than giving money? >> that's how. >> has just giving money. >> that's it. >> money is one kind of speech. i was asked a similar question at a gathering recently and i said look, barack obama has shown there's a second model for politicians. you can build a base of small donors and as brad points out it can be a robust, even unlimited spending. >> any other...
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what about that would actually make us safer and stronger in a threat environment is very curious. i think it does have something to do with, as i started, the vision that the governor has. if your vision of what is happening in in the world is driven by russia and the geostrategic threat and you want to confront china on day one and you want to confront the states, and you want to be hunkered down in the middle east while these transnational threats and substate actors are hitting us very hard, then that is a totally different approach i agree but if you want to see where the president has been which is very aggressive against al qaeda and supporting the democratic moderate forces, doing transitions in afghanistan and iraq frankly to lighten our burden in the middle east so we could move into the front to other threats of the world. it is a more agile, a smarter, tougher and stronger approach. one only has to look at the previous administration. if that is what people want in their security process going forward they can have it again because it sounds like exactly what he is sugg
what about that would actually make us safer and stronger in a threat environment is very curious. i think it does have something to do with, as i started, the vision that the governor has. if your vision of what is happening in in the world is driven by russia and the geostrategic threat and you want to confront china on day one and you want to confront the states, and you want to be hunkered down in the middle east while these transnational threats and substate actors are hitting us very...
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we are going to lots of cities to help them grow economically and create jobs and helping environments. we do a tremendous amount for education and veterans. we have hired, and if you're a veteran in this room thank you very much for serving this country, we have hired 4800 veterans this year in the last 18 months or so. there is this thing called 100,000 jobs which we help starting hired 28,000 veterans and we have done 4500 ourselves. while other people are talking, we are doing. before this program we will do 1000 so we try to participate and to me it's all the same thing, healthy vibrant company, makes it all possible. the dying company, now been it is possible. i will put it in that same thing by the way, people say as an employee or shareholder if i don't make customers happy there is nothing else. if our employees don't do a good job -- it's all important to me. i try to run a fair profit, take care of your own people in your clients. let me go back to the mistake issue one more time. here's a question for you all. we have something like $15 billion in exposure in derivatives an
we are going to lots of cities to help them grow economically and create jobs and helping environments. we do a tremendous amount for education and veterans. we have hired, and if you're a veteran in this room thank you very much for serving this country, we have hired 4800 veterans this year in the last 18 months or so. there is this thing called 100,000 jobs which we help starting hired 28,000 veterans and we have done 4500 ourselves. while other people are talking, we are doing. before this...
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in economic and social environment that is breaking down. that structure and effectiveness. a water crisis, an ecological crisis, or the majority living on less than $60 a month. you're the head of families, 30 year old and have a wife with three or four children, the population growth is right now off the charts. and you are living and $60 a day . come into our communities and system i can pay you 400, but you have to believe and carried his rifle. the level of desperation. what it as people get sucked up, that is an unfortunate reality. the trick here is right now we did have a good granular as you of what troubles structures called region where they're is a lot of region influence. we have a general view. you can't fight this kind of war. you have to have that on the ground you. this of the mission had the interventions. it does mean that we have to have a much more clear picture of who our adversary is, how are ever serve relates to the local population and the points of pressure. >> what is your assessment? some major reverses as a result of the drug program. the drough
in economic and social environment that is breaking down. that structure and effectiveness. a water crisis, an ecological crisis, or the majority living on less than $60 a month. you're the head of families, 30 year old and have a wife with three or four children, the population growth is right now off the charts. and you are living and $60 a day . come into our communities and system i can pay you 400, but you have to believe and carried his rifle. the level of desperation. what it as people...